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India's internet freedom score improved by two points to 51 in the global ranking following efforts to bridge the digital divide in the country, the US government-funded NGO Freedom House said on Tuesday. The improvement in the score is also based on reduced frequency and intensity of internet shutdowns in the country.
Investment firm Invesco and OFI Global China along with other entities sold 5.51 per cent in Zee Entertainment Ltd (ZEEL) for more than Rs 1,396 crore through open transactions. A total of 5,29,35,068 shares of the company were offloaded at a price of Rs 263.7 apiece, according to block deal data available with the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
Smartphone maker Vivo on Tuesday said it will release software updates this month to make most of its 5G-enable handsets work with both standalone and non-standalone 5G networks. Standalone 5G network transmits only 5G signal, while the signal with a mix of 4G and 5G networks is called non-standalone 5G network.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a jam-packed schedule in the run-up to Diwali with back-to-back visits to Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, and will perform a "puja" at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Sunday, officials said.
Flight operations at Mumbai Airport resumed after six hours on Tuesday as the facility operator carried out a scheduled day-long post-monsoon maintenance work, which included installation of runway edge lights, among others. The runway work carried out between 11 am and 5 pm on both runways - 14/32 and 09/27, halting all arrivals and departures during this period.
South Korea says North Korea has fired artillery shells near the rivals'sea border in its latest weapons test. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says North Korea fired about 100 shells off its west coast and 150 rounds off its east coast on Tuesday night.
Tesla's battery-electric registrations jumped nearly 50% from the January-September period last year, while Volkswagen's dropped 40% to just over 32,300 in line with a broader drop across most of the Volkswagen Group brands in Europe's biggest car market.
President Droupadi Murmu has accepted the resignation of Delhi Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam with immediate effect after he put down his papers following a controversy over his presence at a religious conversion event. The Delhi government had accepted Gautam's resignation and forwarded it to Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena for approval, who had sent it for the President's approval last week.
At least 500 candidates, claiming to have cleared Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014, are staging an indefinite sit-in outside the office of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education in Salt Lake over the past two days, demanding that they be given immediate job appointment letters. Twenty of them began a hunger strike on Tuesday morning, asserting that they would not call off the protest till an acceptable solution is offered to them.
A senior Ukrainian official says Russian attacks have damaged more than 400 infrastructure targets across Ukraine since early last week. The Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, Oleksii Chernyshov, said Tuesday that Russian missiles and Iranian-made drones have struck 408 Ukrainian targets since October10.
Axis Bank has increased the marginal cost of funds based lending rates (MCLR) by 25 basis points across tenors with immediate effect, the bank said on Tuesday. The country's third largest private sector lender in a communication on its website stated that the benchmark one-year MCLR is up by 25 basis points to 8.35 per cent with effect from October 18, 2022.
